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June 28th, 2006

The truth...

Posted At: 9:04am by AgentDelta
I got this in an e-mail today. I thought y'all would enjoy it.

"


 You've got to admire John Glenn.....Still
proud to be ex-military!!
> >
WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID:
> >

> >
> > There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in
> > January.
> > In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in
> > the
> > month of January.That's just one American city,
> > about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of
> > Iraq.
> >
> >
> >
> > When some claim that President Bush shouldn't
> > have started this war, state the following:
> >
> >
> >
> > a. FDR led us into World War II.
> >
> > b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.
> > >From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ...
> > an average of 112,500 per year.
> >
> >
> >
> > c. Truman finished that war and started one in
> > Korea.
> > North Korea never attacked us.
> > >From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ...
> > an average of 18,334 per year.
> >
> > d. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in
> > 1962.
> > Vietnam never attacked us.
> >
> > e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
> > >From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost
> > an average of 5,800 per year.
> >
> > f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or
> > French consent.
> > Bosnia never attacked us.
> > He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter
> > three
> > times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked
> > us on
> > multiple occasions.
> >
> > g. In the years since terrorists attacked us ,
> > President Bush
> > has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban,
> > crippled
> > al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and
> > North
> > Korea without firing a shot, and captured a
> > terrorist who
> > slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Democrats are complaining
> > about how long the war is taking.
> > But
> > It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet
> > Reno
> > to take the Branch Davidian compound.
> > That was a 51-day operation.
> >
> >
> >
> > We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons
> > in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton
> > to find
> > the Rose Law Firm billing records.
> >
> >
> >
> > It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and
> > the
> > Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard
> > than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after
> > his
> > Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick
> >
> >
> >
> > It took less time to take Iraq than it took
> > to count the votes in Florida!!!!
> >
> > Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
> > The Military morale is high!
> >
> > The biased media hopes we are too ignorant
> > to realize the facts
> >
> >
> >
> > But Wait there's more!
> >
> >
> >
> > JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
> > Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13
> >
> >
> >
> > Some people still don't understand why military
> > personnel
> > do what they do for a living. This exchange between
> > Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum
> > is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
> > impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of
> > one
> > man's explanation of why men and women in the armed
> > services do what they do for a living
> >
> >
> >
> > This IS a typical, though sad, example of what
> > some who have never served think of the military.
> >
> >
> >
> > Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
> > "How can you run for Senate
> > when you've never held a real job?"
> >
> >
> >
> > Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
> > "I served 23 years in the United States Marine
> > Corps.
> > I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.
> > My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12
> > different
> > occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my
> > checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It
> > was
> > not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to
> > take the
> > daily cash receipts to the bank."
> >
> >
> >
> > "I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other
> > day...
> > to a veteran's hospital and look those men ..
> > with their mangled bodies in the eye, and tell THEM
> > they didn't hold a job!
> >
> >
> >
> > You go with me to the Space Program at NASA
> > and go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphans
> > of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...
> > and you look those kids in the eye and tell them
> > that their DADS didn't hold a job.
> >
> >
> > You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in
> > Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more
> > friends
> > buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch
> > those waving flags.
> >
> >
> >
> > You stand there, and you think about this nation,
> > and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?
> >
> > What about you?"
> >
> >
> > For those who don't remember
> > During WWII, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney
> > representing the Communist Party in the USA.
> >
> > Now he's a Senator!
> >
> >
> >
> > If you can read this, thank a teacher.
> > If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.
> >
> >

> > It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating.
> >

> > In God we Trust
> >"



Edited on: June 28th, 2006 9:05 am
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